NPA projects decrease in Covid-19 cases this week

By Ben Musanje

21^st Sept 2021

The National Planning Authority (NPA) has projected a decrease in the number of Covid-19 cases from the previous week’s daily average of actual reported cases of about 140 to around 115 this week.

In the weekly Covid-19 Model Projections released today, shows the week of 19th to 25th September, an average of 110 new cases per day and a weekly total of 771 new cases are projected.

For the week of 26th Sept to 2th October, a daily average of 117 new cases and a weekly total of 819 are projected but these projections will be lower than last week’s in part due to a decline in the number of reported cases over the past two weeks.

Eng. Abraham J.B Muwanguzi, the NPA Manager Science Planning Department says that though there is a declining trend of new daily cases, basing on the statistics from the Ministry of Health, the number of admissions in both government and private hospitals has increased from 366 in August to 426 as of 12 September yet the number of critical cases has decreased with both government and private hospitals having 17 cases as of 12th.

According to the Ministry of Health Covid-19 results released this Tuesday but conducted on September 19, 2021, 2,612 tests were conducted that accumulated to 1,652,003, 128 were news case, 4.9 percent test positive rate, 396 were active cases on admission at health facilities, one death was registered that totaled to 3130 death so far recorded.

The results chat also shows 95,907 cumulative recoveries, 122,405 cumulative cases and 1,777,685 total doses administered.